Seminars on EU public procurement

Europe Consult offers in-company seminars on public procurement in the EU. Although the programme can be adapted on request, we normally suggest to make clear the juridical framework on public procurement in the EU and to spend time on pragmatic aspects or knowledge on public procurement by introducing cases.

In general for the juridical framework, we suggest in the programme to pay attention to:

• the EU directive(s) 2004/17/EG and/or 2004/18/EG on public procurement

• the EU directive 2007/66/EG on the review of procedures concerning the award of public contracts

• the EU directive 2009/81/EG on the public procurement procedures in the fields of defence and security

• the differences between selection and award criteria

For the pragmatic aspects on public procurement we suggest case-studies on:

• scans on the contracts not awarded in the past

• preparing a current bid of interest

Documentation will be included and can consist of, among others, the text(s) of the EU directives in one ore more official languages of the EU

Tender Alert Service

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Published on Monday, 28 February 2011 08:24

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Tender Alert Service

We deliver a tender alert service and we are an agent of TEDALERT, one of the main suppliers of information on European tenders. By means of a sophisticated and specially developed software for tendersearches, your company profile will be matched daily with the hundred of calls for tenders published that same day and distributed to thousands of companies all over the word. Our tenders alert service TEDALERT is a guarantee for quality.

How does the our tender alert service TEDALERT work ?

After your subscription to the system, Europe Consult will compose together with you a profile for the selection of the relevant tender notices. The system may profit from all the search criteria offered by the database TED (Tenders Electronic Daily). The database will be updated before midnight with the actual tenders from the next day. Shortly after midnight, your profile will be matched with these actual tenders, which you may find on your desk the on the actual day of publication.

The advantages of the tenders alert service TEDALERT:

THE GUARANTEE THAT YOUR AREA OF BUSINESS WILL BE COVERED !

• Automatic and daily distribution within a few hours after publication of the documents;
• You pay for the notices you get;
• Helpdesk for answering questions by phone;
• Daily distribution of actual tenders matching your wishes and company profile;
• Selection and distribution of relevant calls for tenders customised according to your companies products and services based on all the search criteria of the database;
• Selection and distribution from European, national and regional call for tenders, published by central, local contracting entities;
• Selection and distribution of the tender notices from the European Commission and its institutions;
• Distribution by fax or email.

Apart from the normal distribution of the documents by fax or email meant for one addressee, the documents can also be delivered in any other format (like FTP or XML) for publication on a (protected) intranet, or website or for hardcopy publications like (news) papers, newsletter or news column or section for any group of persons, like contracting authorities.

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public procurement in Europe

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Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 20:11

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public procurement in Europe

The European Union – EU- consists of 27 memberstates and all of them need to accept and follow the EU directives. EU directives are EU laws which need to be implemented in national law by each memberstate.

The EU public procurement contracts account for about 16 % of the gross domestic product (GPD) and are therefore a significant part of the market.

There are two major EU directives on public procurement

• Directive 2004/18/EC on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, supply contracts and public service contracts

•Directive 2004/17/EC coordinating the procurement of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors.

Be aware that although the national legislation on public procurement is based on these European directives, and therefor the actual national legislation might differ slightly from memberstate to memberstate.

The directives cover contracts above certain thresholds:

• public works contracts worth over € 4 845 000;

• public supply and service contracts worth over

€ 125 000 in the case of central government authorities,

€ 193 000 for sub-central entities or

€ 387 000 for entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services.

Remedies European legislation (2007/66/EG) guarantees firms equivalent levels of legal redress against contract-awarding authorities that do not comply with the rules.

Defence contracts are still largely covered by national legislation. The EU aims to create an EU market for defence equipment while preserving national security interests with the EU directive 2009/81/EG

The EU adheres to World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on fair international competition for public contracts. This agreement, known as the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), has 39 members including the 27 EU countries. The agreement bans discrimination in the awarding of public contracts and lays down procedural rules.

adjacency

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Published on Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:01

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Our tenders Alert service TEDALERT makes it possible to look for words which are no more then 10 or 20 positions (characters) of each other removed. We also can indicate if they must appear in a fixed order or that the order of appearance is not relevant.

For instance:(SECURITY. FILM) or (DECORATI$.FILM) or (PUBLIC..INVESTMEN$)

A point (.) between two words, means that the order in which the words prevent is not important. The number of points (.) between the words gives the number of positions or characters in which the keywords may be removed from each other.

A comma (,) indicates that the words must be found in the order as mentioned. The number of commas (,) between the words indicates the number of positions or characters that the keywords may be removed from each other.